Watch BBC report about Global Anime Market

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AKA - "How Crunchyroll became a global anime streaming empire."

Included - an interview with Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini, who talks about the company's operation. He claims there are "1.5 billion anime viewers or 'anime curious' fans around the world outside China and Japan, so it's a pretty big market."

The story also acknowledges other companies streaming anime. Richard Handjaja, the editor of the anime business substack Animenomics, points out that according to the Association of Japanese Animation, the overseas anime market has now overtaken the domestic one. The BBC reporter Tom Gerken brings up the series Delicious in Dungeon, which streams on Netflix. He asks Purini if Crunchyroll was trying to acquire that title. Purini doesn't answer directly, but he agrees that Crunchyroll is trying to acquire as many of the new anime series exclusively for the platform as it can.